These Individual Terms of Service apply to individual accounts created on or after January 16, 2026. For team, lab, institution, and enterprise plans created on or after January 16, 2026, please see the Enterprise Subscription Agreement.
You can view the prior terms here.
Welcome to BioRender! These Terms govern your use of BioRender’s services and tools for individuals. By using those services and tools, you agree to be bound by these Terms.
First, some definitions. We’ll refer to:
BioRender is a visual communications platform that empowers people to design and collaborate on science figures and graphs.
Your Right to Use the Services. Subject to your compliance with these Terms, BioRender grants you a non-exclusive, limited, non-transferable, freely revocable license to access and use the Services.
Acceptable Use Policy. Your use of the Services, your User Content, and your Science Figures must comply with BioRender’s Acceptable Use Policy. If you fail to comply with any provision of BioRender's Acceptable Use Policy, BioRender may delete the violating content or suspend or terminate your account.
Age Requirements. Children may not access or use the Services unless their use is directly authorized by their parent, guardian or another authorized adult (such as a teacher) who agrees to be bound by these Terms. For purposes of these Terms, a child is a person under the age of 13 (or the minimum legal age required to provide consent for processing of personal data in the country where the child is located).
Improper Uses of the Services. You shall not yourself or through any third party
BioRender is designed for collaboration and users get the most value out of BioRender when it is deployed within a company or organization. For that reason, we’ve made it easy for organizations to migrate individually-registered BioRender accounts to Team, Lab, or Enterprise accounts.
If you register for the Services using an email address associated with your employer or any other organization to which you belong (each an “Organization”):
If you signed up with an Organization Account, BioRender may, at the Organization’s request:
Once control is transferred, the Organization’s administrator may:
If the Organization requests to assume control of your Organization Account, BioRender will notify you and give you the option to move your content and designs to a personal BioRender account (provided you supply a valid email address) before the transfer occurs.
Finally, please note that companies or organizations may opt to consolidate all users with an email address under their domain onto a single, centrally managed BioRender account.
Information Security. BioRender implements and maintains physical, technical and administrative security measures designed to protect your information from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification or disclosure. You can learn more about how BioRender protects the Services and your information at BioRender’s Trust Center.
Privacy Policy. If you are a BioRender Free, Student, or Individual user, BioRender’s Privacy Policy applies to the personal data that BioRender collects, uses, transfers, discloses and stores about your account, use of the Services, User Content and Science Figures.
When you use the Services, you’ll have access to a variety of BioRender icons and templates ("BioRender Content”). You also have the option to upload your own content (“User Content”).
You can use BioRender Content, your User Content, and tools available in BioRender to create your “Science Figures”, which may incorporate both BioRender Content and User Content.
When you upload User Content to BioRender, you’re guaranteeing that you have the rights to it.
We never obtain any ownership over that User Content, but you need to give us certain rights to store it and incorporate it into Science Figures.
You Represent that You Have All the Necessary Rights to your User Content and Science Figures. You represent and warrant to BioRender that you own all rights, title, and interest in and to the User Content and Science Figures, or that you have otherwise secured all necessary rights in that content as may be necessary for us to use and process it as described in these Terms.
You Own your User Content and Science Figures. As between you and BioRender, you own your Science Figures and User Content, subject to BioRender’s continued ownership of any and all intellectual property rights to the BioRender Content.
BioRender Gives You a License to Use BioRender Content. BioRender grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free, worldwide license to access and incorporate BioRender Content into Science Figures.
BioRender Retains its Rights in the BioRender Content and Services. Except as expressly set forth in these Terms, all intellectual property rights in and to the Services and BioRender Content remain the sole property of BioRender. BioRender owns or has legal rights to all content, data, software, inventions, ideas, and other technology and intellectual property that it develops in connection with the Services and BioRender Content.
You Give BioRender Permission to use Your Content to Operate the Services. We need your permission to use your User Content and Science Figures to host that content on our servers, provide links to it, and otherwise provide our Services to you. You grant BioRender a royalty-free and sublicensable license to display, host, copy, store and use your User Content and Science Figures solely to the extent necessary to provide, protect, deploy, and improve the Services. To the extent you share Science Figures with others, you grant BioRender a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable, license to display, host, copy, store and use your User Content and Science Figures to the extent necessary to continue to make the Science Figures available.
You Can Share and Publish Your Science Figures.
Your rights to share and publish depend on your license type.
When you publish any Science Figures, you must abide by the citation guidelines we describe in the Services.
No Standalone Use of BioRender Content. You may not use BioRender Content outside the BioRender application in a way that extracts, redistributes, or makes BioRender Content available on a standalone basis, or in any way that allows others to download, extract, copy, or reuse BioRender Content. These restrictions apply to all users and all BioRender plans.
BioRender offers a free and paid service. You can learn more about BioRender’s various subscription offerings at https://www.biorender.com/pricing. Pricing may vary by location and will be based on the billing information you provide us at the time of purchase.
Subscriptions and Renewals. If you are subscribing to BioRender Individual or Student plan, you can sign up for either a monthly or annual subscription. Your subscription will automatically renew on a monthly or annual basis as applicable. We'll notify you before auto-renewal of your subscription. You can cancel your subscription at any time. If you cancel your subscription, you will not receive a refund or credit for any amounts that have already been billed.
Taxes. Your subscription fees are inclusive of all taxes unless otherwise specified in an agreement with BioRender, within the Services or on an applicable invoice. Tax rates are calculated based on the billing information you provide and the applicable tax rate at the time of your subscription charge.
Cancellation. You can stop using the Services or cancel your subscription at any time via your account settings. If you cancel your subscription, you will not be entitled to a refund of any fees already paid and any outstanding fees will become immediately due and payable.
Free Trials and Pilots. BioRender may offer you a free trial or pilot to allow you to try our Services. BioRender reserves the right to set eligibility requirements and the duration for free trials and pilots.
At the end of your free trial, BioRender will charge the relevant subscription fee for the next billing cycle to your nominated payment method, unless you cancel your subscription prior to the end of the free trial. If you have access to a pilot, your access to the Services will cease if you do not enter into a paid subscription prior to the end of the pilot period.
Changes to Pricing. BioRender may change its pricing. We will give you at least thirty (30) days’ advance notice of any price increase. If you’re on a subscription plan, the new price will not take effect until your next billing renewal date after the 30‑day notice period.
We get great ideas about how to improve BioRender from our users, but we need your permission to use them. You grant BioRender a perpetual, royalty-free, non-terminable license to use any suggestions, ideas, enhancement requests, or other feedback you provide relating to the Services.
The Services are provided on an “as-is” and “as-available” basis. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to any non-excludable rights and remedies you may have under applicable law, BioRender and its affiliates, and their respective licensors and suppliers, expressly disclaim any and all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to, warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. BioRender does not warrant that your use of the Services will be uninterrupted or error-free. BioRender does not warrant that it will review your data for accuracy or that it will preserve or maintain your data without loss. You understand that use of the Services necessarily involves transmission of your data over networks that BioRender does not own, operate, or control, and that BioRender is not responsible for any of your data lost, altered, intercepted or stored across such networks. BioRender will not be liable for delays, interruptions, service failures, or other problems inherent in use of the internet and electronic communications or other systems outside BioRender’s reasonable control.
Within BioRender, you can use apps created by third parties. Those apps might have their own set of terms that apply to you and, because the apps were created by third parties, we aren’t responsible for them.
If BioRender suffers harm due to your content or your violation of these Terms, or if someone tries to hold BioRender responsible for your content or your violations, you’ll be responsible for any costs incurred by BioRender and defending BioRender.
In no event shall either party’s aggregate cumulative liability hereunder (whether in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability in tort or by statute or otherwise) exceed the greater of (i) $100 USD or (ii) the subscription fees paid by you to BioRender during the twelve-month period preceding the event or occurrence giving rise to such liability. The foregoing limitations shall not apply to liabilities arising out of your indemnification obligations or your breach of the section entitled ‘Improper Uses of the Services.’
In no event shall either party be liable for any consequential, incidental, indirect, special, exemplary or punitive damages, losses, or expenses (including but not limited to business interruption, lost business or lost profits) even if it has been advised of their possible existence and notwithstanding the failure of essential purpose of any remedy. The foregoing limitations shall not apply to liabilities arising out of your indemnification obligations or your breach of the section entitled ‘Improper Uses of the Services.’
BioRender is not responsible for, and assumes no liability for, the contents of User Content.
These terms do not affect consumer rights that cannot by law be waived or limited. These terms do not exclude or limit liability arising out of either party’s gross negligence, fraud or willful misconduct.
Term. These Terms shall take effect the first time you access the Services and shall continue in full force and effect until your account is deleted or terminated.
Violations. If BioRender, in its reasonable discretion, determines that you or your use of the Services, your User Content, or your Science Figures violate these Terms, including but not limited to, BioRender’s Acceptable Use Policy or the Section entitled “Improper Uses of the Services” (any of which is considered a “Violation”), BioRender may take one or more of the following actions: (i) delete the prohibited User Content or Science Figures; (ii) suspend your access to the Services; (iii) terminate and delete your account along with all Science Figures and User Content associated with that account; (iv) permanently ban you from using the Services; and (v) disclose the prohibited User Content or Science Figures to appropriate government authorities.
Effect of Termination. In the event of termination of your subscription for cause due to default by BioRender, BioRender shall refund, on a prorated basis, any prepaid fees for the Services for the period beginning on the effective date of termination through the end of your then-current subscription. In the event of a termination of your subscription due to a Violation, you will not receive any refund and shall immediately pay any outstanding fees for the remaining period of your subscription.
Upon any expiration or termination of your subscription, you must cease using the Services. You will lose access to your Science Figures, User Content, and any other information uploaded to the Services (and we may delete all such data unless legally prohibited) after expiration or termination of your subscription. User Content included in any shared Science Figure will continue to be available within that Science Figure even after the expiration of your subscription. Unless your account was terminated due to a Violation, you can download or export your User Content and Science Figures using the functionality of the Services prior to the expiration or termination of your subscription. If your account has been terminated due to a Violation, you may not create a new account on any Services unless you receive BioRender’s written permission.
Survival of Terms. Sections titled “Term and Termination,” “Billing,” “IP Ownership and Licenses,” “Limitation of Liability,” “Your Indemnity Obligations,” and “Miscellaneous” inclusive, shall survive any expiration or termination of these Terms.
U.S. Users Only. This Dispute Resolution section, including the mandatory arbitration and class action waiver provisions, applies only to users who reside in the United States. If you do not reside in the United States, these provisions do not apply to you, and disputes will be resolved in accordance with the Governing Law and Venue section of these Terms.
YOU AND BIORENDER AGREE TO THE FOLLOWING MANDATORY ARBITRATION AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER PROVISIONS:
MANDATORY ARBITRATION. You and BioRender agree to resolve any claims arising out of or relating to these Terms or our Services, regardless of when the claim arose—even if it was before these Terms existed (a “Dispute”)—through final and binding arbitration. You may opt out of arbitration within 30 days of account creation or within 30 days of any update to these arbitration terms by emailing support@biorender.com. If you timely opt out of an update, the last set of agreed‑upon arbitration terms will continue to apply.
Informal dispute resolution. Before initiating arbitration, we both agree to try to resolve the Dispute informally. You agree to send notice of your claim by emailing support@biorender.com. We will send notice to the email address associated with your account. If we are unable to resolve the Dispute within 60 days of receipt of that notice, either party may commence arbitration. During this period, either party may request an individual settlement conference. Any applicable statute of limitations will be tolled during informal resolution.
Arbitration forum. If informal resolution fails, either party may commence arbitration with National Arbitration and Mediation (“NAM”) under its Comprehensive Dispute Resolution Rules and Procedures (available here). BioRender will not seek attorneys’ fees or costs in arbitration unless the arbitrator determines that your claim is frivolous. The Federal Arbitration Act governs these arbitration terms and any arbitration arising under them.
Arbitration procedures. Arbitration will be conducted by videoconference if possible. If an in‑person hearing is required, the location will be mutually agreed or, if no agreement is reached, in the county where you reside. A single arbitrator—either a retired judge or an attorney licensed to practice law in New York—will preside. The arbitrator has exclusive authority to resolve any Dispute, except that the state or federal courts of San Francisco, California retain authority to decide disputes about enforceability or validity of the class action waiver or requests for public injunctive relief. Settlement offers will remain confidential until after the arbitrator issues a final award. The arbitrator may grant dispositive motions.
Exceptions. This Dispute Resolution section does not require informal resolution or arbitration of:
CLASS AND JURY TRIAL WAIVERS. Disputes must be brought individually and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, consolidated, or representative proceeding. Class arbitrations, class actions, and representative actions are prohibited. Only individual relief is available. After completing arbitration on the merits, any request for public injunctive relief must be severed and litigated in court. Both parties knowingly and irrevocably waive any right to trial by jury.
Batch arbitration. If 25 or more claimants represented by the same or similar counsel file arbitration demands raising substantially similar Disputes within 90 days, NAM will administer them in batches of up to 50 claimants each (“Batch”). Each Batch will proceed as a single arbitration with one arbitrator, one set of fees, and one hearing (by videoconference or a location chosen by the arbitrator). If any part of this Batch arbitration provision is held invalid as to a particular claimant or Batch, that claimant’s dispute will proceed individually.
Severability. If any part of these arbitration terms is found illegal or unenforceable, the remainder will remain in effect—except that if partial invalidity would permit class or representative arbitration, this entire Dispute Resolution section will be unenforceable in its entirety.
Compliance with Applicable Law. You and we both agree to abide by all applicable local, state, national and foreign laws, treaties and regulations, in connection with your use and our provision of the Services.
Governing Law and Venue. These Terms will be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of California. Except as provided in the dispute resolution section above, all claims arising out of or relating to these Terms will be brought exclusively in the federal or state courts of San Francisco, California.
Export Restrictions. The Services are subject to trade sanctions and laws and regulations that govern the import, export, and use of the Services. These laws or regulations may prohibit BioRender from providing you the Services or require that we discontinue making it available to you without notice. By using the Services you agree to comply with all trade sanctions, export and import laws, and regulations and warrant that (i) you are not prohibited from accessing the Services, and (ii) you will not make available the Services to anyone who is prohibited from accessing it under the laws or regulations of any jurisdiction.
Assignment. You may not assign any part of these Terms without BioRender’s consent except to any successor by way of a merger, acquisition, or change of control. BioRender may transfer or assign any of its rights and obligations under these Terms, in whole or in part, at any time with or without notice.
Headings and Explanations. Headings and explanations used in these Terms are provided for convenience only and will not in any way affect the meaning or interpretation of the Terms or any portion thereof.
Severability. If a particular provision of these Terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, it shall not affect the other provisions and the Terms shall be construed in all respects as if that invalid or unenforceable provision had been limited or omitted to the minimum extent necessary.
Waiver. BioRender’s express waiver or failure to enforce any provision of these Terms shall in no way be construed to be a present or future waiver of such provision nor affect BioRender’s ability to enforce any provision thereafter.
Notices. All required notices to you will be sent to the email address associated with your account or through other legally permissible means.
DMCA. We respect the intellectual property rights of artists and content owners. We will respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.
Changes to these Terms. We may update these Terms from time to time. We will post the newest version at https://biorender.com/terms and notify you of any material change that negatively affects your rights at least 30 days before it takes effect (via, for example, in‑app notice or your email address). Non‑material changes (for example, clarifications, formatting) may take effect upon posting without advance notice.
If you disagree with a material change, you may terminate your account before the change’s effective date. Continued use of the Services after the effective date constitutes your acceptance of the updated Terms.
Changes to the Services. BioRender may add, change or remove features or functionality to the Services; modify or introduce limitations to storage or other features; or discontinue the Services altogether at any time. If you are on a paid subscription and BioRender discontinues the Services you are using during your subscription, BioRender will migrate or make available to you a substantially similar service provided by BioRender (if available) and if it’s unable to do so, BioRender will provide you a pro-rata refund of fees prepaid for the remaining period of your subscription.
Entire Agreement. These Terms and the terms and policies referenced herein constitute the entire agreement between you and BioRender with respect to the Services. These Terms supersede any prior representations, agreements, or understandings between you and BioRender, whether written or oral, with respect to the Services including previous versions of the Terms. All terms, conditions or provisions on a purchase order shall be of no force and effect notwithstanding any acceptance of such purchase order. The English version of these Terms will control.